Homemade Cakes thread

POPPYOSCAR

We made a birthday cake for my OH yesterday.My DD is 13 and is mad about Twilight so she decorated it in red icing to look like blood!!!
Don't think many were impressed but it was eaten up all the same!!

HannahIOW

pointofnoreturn wrote: »

Are you able to post the recipe for your scrummy looking Lemon Drizzle please!!!!!

Of course (bear in mind this makes a two tier cake, fills two 10 inch tins)

Lemon Drizzle Cake

20oz self raising flour
20oz caster sugar
20oz cooking marg
10 eggs (based on 2oz per egg)
rind and juice of one lemon

Add flour, sugar and marg to bowl. Whisk eggs seperately, and slowly add to the rest of the mixture while whisking the mixture together to get plenty of air in

When it is a smooth consistency, slowly whisk in the lemon juice. Fold in the rind by hand to avoid losing air.

Pour and smooth into cake tins and cook on gas 4 for 1hr 20 mins.

For the center of the cake I used lemon butter icing, basically butter icing (soften butter and whisk in icing sugar) with a little lemon juice.

Once the cake is cold spread the butter icing on the bottom layer and sandwich the top layer ontop. Zest another lemon, then remove the juice. Add icing sugar to the juice until it is a thick consistency enough to very slowly fall off a teaspoon. Pour the majority of it onto the cake and use the remainder to drizzle down the sides with a teaspoon, finally sprinkle the lemon zest ontop.

awesome2_2

Hi Ladies
I want to make this for my dd birthday but what can I use for a handle as we dont have tootsies here. Any help will be appreciated.


Thanks:beer:

stardrops42

The make up bag and cosmetics cake is for my niece and the football cake is for my other nieces little boy. I really enjoyed doing the make up bag but the football cake was more of a challenge!

deejane

stardrops42 wrote: »

The make up bag and cosmetics cake is for my niece and the football cake is for my other nieces little boy. I really enjoyed doing the make up bag but the football cake was more of a challenge!

There really good, how did you do the football cake?

pointofnoreturn

HannahIOW wrote: »

Of course (bear in mind this makes a two tier cake, fills two 10 inch tins)

Lemon Drizzle Cake

20oz self raising flour
20oz caster sugar
20oz cooking marg
10 eggs (based on 2oz per egg)
rind and juice of one lemon

Add flour, sugar and marg to bowl. Whisk eggs seperately, and slowly add to the rest of the mixture while whisking the mixture together to get plenty of air in

When it is a smooth consistency, slowly whisk in the lemon juice. Fold in the rind by hand to avoid losing air.

Pour and smooth into cake tins and cook on gas 4 for 1hr 20 mins.

For the center of the cake I used lemon butter icing, basically butter icing (soften butter and whisk in icing sugar) with a little lemon juice.

Once the cake is cold spread the butter icing on the bottom layer and sandwich the top layer ontop. Zest another lemon, then remove the juice. Add icing sugar to the juice until it is a thick consistency enough to very slowly fall off a teaspoon. Pour the majority of it onto the cake and use the remainder to drizzle down the sides with a teaspoon, finally sprinkle the lemon zest ontop.

Thanks very much sounds lovely although I may make it abit smaller!!!!!

pointofnoreturn

awesome2 wrote: »

Hi Ladies
I want to make this for my dd birthday but what can I use for a handle as we dont have tootsies here. Any help will be appreciated.


Thanks:beer:

What about a curly wurly - make sure it is soft and pliable and bend for handle shape.

pointofnoreturn

Stardrops - your cakes are fantastic - I saw them on your blog and commented as well!!!!!

stardrops42

deejane wrote: »

There really good, how did you do the football cake?

With great difficulty:rotfl:
The bottom cake is a 10" round chocolate cake filled with jam and buttercream. The football was made by baking the cake in a round pyrex bowl. I then got hubby to make templates out of cardboard which I used to cut out the white and black fondant bits on the ball. The half football was then placed on a cakeboard, coated in buttercream and the pieces stuck on, a bit like doing a jigsaw. The football was then placed on top of the bottom cake which I had put dowels in first to support it. The grass was made by pushing fondant through a garlic press. The little figure I made freehand from modelling paste. I'm not very good at explaining but I hope that helps:D

stardrops42

pointofnoreturn wrote: »

Stardrops - your cakes are fantastic - I saw them on your blog and commented as well!!!!!

Thankyou very much, very kind:D